Getting Ahead of Crime Using GIS


Author: • 6/30/08 • Categorized as Industry and Subjects in GIS          



Sara Barbour from Miller/McCune magazine writes a summary article on the use of GIS to predict criminal behavior.  The start of the article reviews a crime case in which spatial analysis was used to pinpoint and subsequently arrest a sex offender in Toronto.  Manny San Pedro, an officer with that police force is quoted as saying “If you have a crime analysis unit and you are not using spatial analysis, you are missing a key component.”  The article also delves into how a generation raised on Google Maps will maybe one day find spatial thinking added to their curriculums. 

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